Publications (25)
Broadband multiwavelength properties of the archetypal blazar 3C 279 during the 2017 Event Horizon Telescope campaign
G. Principe, J. C. Algaba, E. Aviano +529
The archetypal blazar 3C 279 hosts a prominent relativistic jet and exhibits strong broadband variability across the electromagnetic spectrum. In April 2017, the Event Horizon Tele…
A multi-frequency study of sub-parsec jets with the Event Horizon Telescope
Jan Röder, Maciek Wielgus, Andrei P. Lobanov +287
The 2017 observing campaign of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) delivered the first very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) images at the observing frequency of 230 GHz, leading…
Emission Modeling in the EHT-ngEHT Age
Richard Anantua, JoaquÃn Dúran, Nathan Ngata +9
This work proposes a methodology to test phenomenologically-motivated emission processes that account for the flux and polarization distribution and global structure of the 230 GHz…
GRRMHD Simulations of State Transitions in Non-Jetted Tidal Disruption Events
Brandon Curd, Safira Heridia, Aviyel Ahiyya +1
Circularization of the stream material into a debris cloud during tidal disruption events (TDEs) was recently demonstrated in one of the most accurate long duration TDE simulations…
Recipes for Jet Feedback and Spin Evolution of Black Holes with Strongly-Magnetized Super-Eddington Accretion Disks
Angelo Ricarte, Ramesh Narayan, Brandon Curd
A spinning black hole accreting from a disk of strongly magnetized plasma via a magnetically arrested disk is known to produce an efficient electromagnetic jet powered by the black…
A Dark Spot on a Massive White Dwarf
Mukremin Kilic, Alexandros Gianninas, Keaton J. Bell +7
We present the serendipitous discovery of eclipse-like events around the massive white dwarf SDSS J152934.98+292801.9 (hereafter J1529+2928). We selected J1529+2928 for time-series…
Accreting Primordial Black Holes: Dark Matter Constituents
Brandon Curd, Richard Anantua, Nathaniel Lujan +1
We show scenarios in which primordial black hole accretion under the magnetorotational instability (MRI) uniquely relates the density of the early Universe to the abundance of pres…
Probing plasma composition with the next generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT)
Razieh Emami, Richard Anantua, Angelo Ricarte +15
We explore the plasma matter content in the innermost accretion disk/jet in M87* as relevant for an enthusiastic search for the signatures of anti-matter in the next generation of…
Jets in Magnetically Arrested Hot Accretion Flows: Geometry, Power and Black Hole Spindown
Ramesh Narayan, Andrew Chael, Koushik Chatterjee +2
We present the results of nine simulations of radiatively-inefficient magnetically arrested disks (MADs) across different values of the black hole spin parameter : , $-0…
Locating the missing large-scale emission in the jet of M87* with short EHT baselines
Boris Georgiev, Paul Tiede, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg +280
In Very-Long Baseline Interferometric arrays, nearly co-located stations probe the largest scales and typically cannot resolve the observed source. In the absence of large-scale st…
Global Simulations of Tidal Disruption Event Disk Formation via Stream Injection in GRRMHD
Brandon Curd
We use the general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics code \verb=KORAL= to simulate the early stages of accretion disk formation resulting from the tidal disruption of a s…
Dynamics and geometry of the inner sub-parsec-scale jet in 3C 279 observed with the Event Horizon Telescope
Hendrik Mueller, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg, Ai-Ling Zeng +275
The 2021 Event Horizon Telescope observations resolve the innermost jet region of the blazar 3C279 with unprecedented detail. The reconstructed images consistently reveal a compact…
Jets from SANE Super-Eddington Accretion Disks: Morphology, Spectra, and Their Potential as Targets for ngEHT
Brandon Curd, Razieh Emami, Richard Anantua +3
We present general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics (GRRMHD) simulations of super-Eddington accretion flows around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) which may apply to ti…
GRRMHD Simulations of MAD Accretion Disks Declining from Super-Eddington to Sub-Eddington Accretion Rates
Brandon Curd, Ramesh Narayan
We present two general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics (GRRMHD) simulations of magnetically arrested disks (MADs) around non-spinning () and spinning ()…
Probing jet base emission of M87* with the 2021 Event Horizon Telescope observations
Saurabh, Hendrik Müller, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg +282
We investigate the presence and spatial characteristics of the jet base emission in M87* at 230 GHz, enabled by the enhanced uv coverage in the 2021 Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) o…
Modeling Reconstructed Images of Jets Launched by SANE Super-Eddington Accretion Flows Around SMBHs with the ngEHT
Brandon Curd, Razieh Emami, Freek Roelofs +1
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) around super massive black holes (SMBHs) are a potential laboratory to study super-Eddington accretion disks and sometimes result in powerful jets or…
Full-polarization millimeter wavelength variability of Sagittarius A* during the 2018 EHT campaign
Ezequiel Albentosa-Ruiz, Jasmin E. Washington, Nicola Marchili +272
Sagittarius A* (Srg A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, provides a unique laboratory to study accretion dynamics and plasma processes near the event ho…
Ring Asymmetry and Spin in M87*
Vadim Bernshteyn, Nicholas S. Conroy, Michi Bauböck +263
Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) images of the supermassive black hole M87* depict an asymmetric ring of emission. General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) models of M87* and…
GRRMHD Simulations of Tidal Disruption Event Accretion Disks around Supermassive Black Holes: Jet Formation, Spectra, and Detectability
Brandon Curd, Ramesh Narayan
We report results from general relativistic radiation MHD (GRRMHD) simulations of a super-Eddington black hole (BH) accretion disk formed as a result of a tidal disruption event (T…
Discovery of Three Pulsating, Mixed-atmosphere, Extremely Low-mass White Dwarf Precursors
A. Gianninas, Brandon Curd, G. Fontaine +2
We report the discovery of pulsations in three mixed-atmosphere, extremely low-mass white dwarf (ELM WD, M 0.3 M) precursors. Following the recent discoveries…
Origin of the ring ellipticity in the black hole images of M87*
Rohan Dahale, Ilje Cho, Kotaro Moriyama +273
We investigate the origin of the elliptical ring structure observed in the images of the supermassive black hole M87*, aiming to disentangle contributions from gravitational, astro…
Jet Tilt Instability from Stream-Disk Interactions in MAD Disks
Brandon Curd, Richard Anantua, Hayley West +1
Magnetically arrested accretion disks (MADs) around a rapidly rotating black hole (BH) have been proposed as a model for jetted tidal disruption events (TDEs). However, the stream…
On the Comparison of AGN with GRMHD Simulations: II. M87
Richard Anantua, Angelo Ricarte, George Wong +6
Horizon-scale observations of the jetted active galactic nucleus M87 are compared with simulations spanning a broad range of dissipation mechanisms and plasma content in three-dime…
Four New Massive Pulsating White Dwarfs Including an Ultramassive DAV
Brandon Curd, A. Gianninas, Keaton J. Bell +5
We report the discovery of four massive () ZZ Ceti white dwarfs, including an ultramassive star. We obtained ground based, time-series photometry…
A Gemini Snapshot Survey for Double Degenerates
Mukremin Kilic, Warren R. Brown, A. Gianninas +3
We present the results from a Gemini snapshot radial-velocity survey of 44 low-mass white dwarf candidates selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopy. To find sub-hour…